Improved method of



' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE,

JOHN W. KINGMAN, OF NORTH BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED METHOD OF APPLYING PAINT TO SURFACES. A

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 54,365, dated May 1, 1866; antedated April 19, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN W. KINGMAN, of North Bridgewater, county of Plymouth, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Method of Applying Paint to Surfaces, the advantages of which are a great saving of stock and of labor in applying, as Well as of obtaining on very old surfaces of rough boards which have never been painted, or have long been unpainted, a smooth neat surface of paint with asingle application by this method, where several coats of paint would have been necessary to have accomplished a less smooth and neat surface.

The method of applying the paint is as follows: I A paste (of the consistency of that which is used for applying paper to walls) is herein described.

' JOHN W. KINGMAN.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. PARK, GEO. H. FOSTER. 

